details: Excerpt from the "Shadow vs Light" art installation
project with Silje Steinsvik and Brit Steinsvik. The project premiered
in Fredrikstad in November 2012. The music was commissioned by The Norwegian
Composers Association. All sounds by Jonas Qvale A 196. Sampler, effects,
audio generator, Spear audio analysis software, Akai Synthstation. Recorded
directly to two tracks (Soft focus pan)/composed in Reaper (Shadow investigation)

details: Recorded live in Fredrikstad at Rock On in support of Nekropolis
on May 21, 2010. All sounds by Jonas Qvale A 196. Dictaphone cassette
player, organ, percussion, effects, electronics. Recorded directly to
two tracks.

details:
"This invaluable and rejected recording of prepared piano and feedback
clearly shows the origin of the great tradition that has earned Trondheim
such status internationally.

It
was conceived and performed by Jonas Qvale A196 (prepared piano, microphone/tremolo/speaker
setup, Ibanez and Boss digital delay effect pedals, pebbles). This recording
contains two public performances of the work held on July 28th, 2001
in a barn in Holmestrand (a village famous for the tunnel leading you
around it).

Of
special note is the bold use of pebbles tossed onto the strings of the
piano in the beginning of both versions. A total disregard of conventional
recording techniques has resulted in a rooster crowing, an engaged child
audience member, footsteps and intermittent outside traffic noise throughout,
making this baffling audio document exciting listening material. There
is no end to it. Rhizotto.

The
artist came to maturity in the Buran academic circles around the turn
of the millenium, and the two recitals captured here are very much products
of their time and of that curious scene. Buran is a part of Trondheim
inhabited by very old people and younger students, artists and academics.
It is also an area close to the more famous "alternative"
Svartla'mon."